Today's Opinions

America’s veterans know the meaning of sacrifice. They’ve spent weeks, months, and years away from home and loved ones. They’ve missed birthdays, anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners, and first steps. Some have experienced physical trauma that we can see while others carry their wounds on the inside.

If you care about public policy and the great issues facing our democracy, then you have to lament the fact that this crazy election never materialized into a serious discussion of those questions.
Much of it had to do with Donald Trump’s insane candidacy, his preoccupation with nonsense like “building a wall,” and the media’s insistence that his antics and Hillary’s e-mails were all that was worthy of discussion.

I don’t know, as of this writing, how the election went. I still can’t believe that both parties managed to cough up such horrible candidates and I’m sure that, no matter which of those two wretches won, we are in for an ugly four years. The only hope is that Congress will work as a restraining force, rather than an enabler for the winner. As both were nominated by a democratic process within their respective parties, they are clear indicators of the degree to which American society has degenerated.

The day after a presidential election should be a national holiday.
It would give those celebrating the victory of their candidate the chance to recuperate. For those whose candidate lost, it would give them the opportunity to see that the sun will still come up, no matter who got elected.
If President Obama had any sense, he would have declared that national holiday as an executive order sometime Tuesday, before all the votes were counted.
The truth is we all deserve a break.

On Saturday, Oct. 29 my wife Bev and I attended the fall concert of the Bedford Community Orchestra at Bedford Middle School..What an OUTSTANDING 2 + hours of musical entertainment.!!! The 13 selections the orchestra performed ranged from a salute to Rogers &Hammerstein, sound tracks by John Williams, music from Apollo 13, Star Trek & much more.